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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access originally published online on November 18, 2005
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2006 41(2):205; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agh239
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A POSSIBLE WAY TO MOTIVATE AMBIVALENT PATIENTS TO UNDERGO DETOXIFICATION

NICOLAS BERTHOLET and JEAN-BERNARD DAEPPEN*

Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: Alcohol Treatment Centre, Mont-Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne CHUV, Switzerland. Tel.: +4121 314 08 75; Fax: +4121 314 05 62; E-mail: Jean-Bernard.Daeppen@chuv.ch

(Received 12 July 2005; first review notified 15 August 2005; in final revised form 19 September 2005; accepted 22 October 2005)

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Health-related quality-of-life and well-being are two important outcome measures for inpatients attending alcohol treatment programs. Rapid improvement in well-being and health related quality-of-life may be a possible way to motivate ambivalent patients to undergo detoxification.

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